7:46 PM,
Mar. 6, 2013

Wade White, of Pensacola, with a nice sheepshead he recently landed while surf fishing off Pensacola Beach.

Written by

Chris Phillips
| News Journal correspondent

Twenty-seven years ago when Tommy Holmes, owner of Outcast Bait and Tackle, decided he wanted to have a tackle sale, he never dreamed that it would be to the magnitude of today's Outcast Spring Tent Sale.

Back then his sale consisted of a 4x8 folding table featuring a couple boxes of samples from manufacture reps. Soon after, one of the nation's largest reel manufacturers agreed to start selling Holmes all of its recondition reels, and that really allowed the sale to get its feet off the ground.

"I started this sale because I wanted to offer anglers the same products they already buy at a lower ...